ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3210-3632 

2026

Saadaoui Y, Beer C, Mueller P, Neiske F, Becker JN, Eschenbach A, Porada P (2026) Quantifying aggregation bias in marsh carbon flux estimates caused by rhizosphere oxygen heterogeneity, Biogeosciences, 23, 6803–6816, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-6803-2026 

Oester R, Branoff B, Biederbick J, Grüterich L, Koll R, Lexmond F, Martens N, Mittmann-Goetsch J, Neiske F, Putri W, Remmers S, Richter D, Ruhrus L, Russnak V, Saadaoui Y, Theilen J, Tobias-Hünefeldt SP, Wilson M, Becker JN, Eschenbach A, Grossart H, Fründ J, Kutzbach L, Meier IC, Porada P, Schaum EC, Streit WR, Woodhouse JN, Jensen K (2026) Ecotonal gradients shape biodiversity of multiple estuarine taxa, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 340, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2026.110042 

Ansari M, Lübeck A, Meyer zu Drewer J, Hagemann N, Eschenbach A, Becker JN (2026) Rock-enhanced biochar exhibits similar priming effect as pure biochar application while improving short-term carbon stabilization in agricultural soils. Biol Fertil Soils 62, 1073–1088, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02030-7 

Albrecht EK, Sekhri S, Reinhold-Hurek B, Solaiyappan Mani S, Stock SC, Dippold MA, Eschenbach A, Becker JN (2026) Mulching, rhizobial inoculation, and water supply shape soil enzyme activities and nutrient dynamics in a Namibian sandy soil under cowpea cultivation, Plant and Soil, 524, 1099–1117, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-026-08705-2 

Ansari M, Stock SC, Dippold MA, Hamburger SE, Kammann CI, Meyer zu Drewer J, Hagemann N, Eschenbach A, Becker JN (2026) Biochar dominated the combined effect of silicate rock powder and biochar application on extracellular enzyme kinetics and nutrient dynamics in a sandy soil, Soil & Tillage Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2026.107234 

Bhandari N, Kinabo NR, Martin DA, Boesing AL, Neyret M, Bocksberger G, Albrecht J, Appelhans T, Arbieu U, Becker JN, Bianco G, Byamungu RM, Classen A, Degano ME, Gebert F, Gross M, Hemp C, Junquera V, Kiese R, Koggani KD, Komposch A, Kuzyakov Y, Mauki DG, Mayr AV, Müller T, Njovu HK, Otte I, Pearson J, Peters MK, Sanya J, Schleuning M, Steffan-Dewenter I, Vollstaedt MGR, Zhang J, Böhning-Gaese K, Fischer M, Hemp A, Peter Manning P, Zeuss D (2026) Mapping the supply of nature’s contributions to people on Mount Kilimanjaro, Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae45bd 

Albrecht EK, Holz M, Becker JN (2026) Spatio-temporal distribution of enzyme activities in cowpea rhizosphere – the role of plant growth stages and nodule senescence, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.110042 

Sekhri S, Kleinschmidt V, Eschenbach A, Becker JN (2026) Water Vapor from deep soil reservoirs as a viable water source for plants in sandy soils, Soil & Tillage Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2025.106887 

2025

Maslouski M, Seedtke M, Meyer zu Drewer J, Hamburger SE, Eschenbach A, Beer C, Becker JN, Hagemann N, Kammann C, Vorrath ME and Porada P (2025) Long-term carbon dioxide removal potential from the application of wood biochar and basanite rock powder in sandy soil using the LiDELSv2 process-based modeling approach, Environmental Research Letters, in print, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae21f6 

Mauki D, Manning P, Schleuning M, Hemp A, Schellenberger Costa D. Sierra Cornejo N, Becker JN, Ensslin A, Rutten G, Neyret M (2025) Community-level plant functional strategies explain ecosystem carbon storage across a tropical elevational gradient, Journal of Ecology, JEC70162, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70162 

Becker JN, Dippold MA, Ndossi EM, Kuzyakov Y, Razavi BS, Spielvogel S (2025) Soil organic matter origin and composition along a 3200m elevation gradient on Mount Kilimanjaro, CATENA, 109319, doi:10.1016/j.catena.2025.109319

Vorrath ME, Amann T, Meyer zu Drewer J, Hagemann N, Aldrich C, Börker J, Seedtke M, Becker JN, Hagens M, Eschenbach A, Hartmann J (2025) Pyrogenic carbon and Carbonating Minerals for Carbon Capture and Storage (PyMiCCS) Part II: Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dioxide Removal in an Oxisol, Frontiers in Climate, vol7-2025, https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1592454 

Neiske F, Seedtke M, Eschenbach A, Wilson M, Jensen K, Becker JN (2025) Soil organic carbon stocks and stabilization mechanisms in tidal marshes along estuarine gradients, Geoderma, 117274, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117274 

Neiske F, Grueterich L, Eschenbach A, Wilson M, Streit WR, Jensen K, Becker JN (2025) Litter decomposition and prokaryotic decomposer communities along estuarine gradients, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 109762, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.109762 

2024

Holz M, Lewin S, Kolb S, Becker JN, Bergmann J (2024) How to get to the N – a call for interdisciplinary research on organic N utilization pathways by plants, Plant and Soil, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06839-9 

Heger A, Becker JN, Vásconez Navas LK, Eschenbach A (2024) Drivers for soil organic carbon stabilization in Elbe River floodplains, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 1–10, https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.202200402 

2023

Rasche L, Becker JN, Chimwamurombe P, Eschenbach A, Groengroeft A, Jeong J, Luther-Mosebach J, Reinhold-Hurek B, Sarkar A, Schneider UA (2023) Exploring the benefits of inoculated cowpeas under different climatic conditions in Namibia, Scientific Reports, 13, 1, 11761 , https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38949-2 

Becker JN*, Grozinger J*, Sarkar A, Reinhold-Hurek B, Eschenbach A (2023) Rhizosphere effects of inoculated cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) on soil nitrogen availability under simulated drought, Plant and Soil, doi:10.1007/s11104-023-06051-1

Sierra Cornejo N, Becker JN, Hemp A, Hertel D (2023) Effects of land-use change and disturbance on the fine root biomass, dynamics, morphology, and related C and N fluxes to the soil of forest ecosystems at different elevations at Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Oecologia 201, 1089–1107, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05353-6 

Heger A, Becker JN, Vásconez LK, Holl D, Eschenbach A (2023): Soil texture and pH affect soil CO₂ efflux in hardwood floodplain forests of the lower middle Elbe River, European Journal of Soil Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13331 

Vásconez LK, Becker JN, Heger A, Groengroeft A, Eschenbach A (2023): Are active and former floodplain soils of the lower middle Elbe similar? A study of soil characteristics and possible implications for forest productivity, CATENA 222, 106814, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106814 

2022

Schütt A, Becker JN, Groengroeft A, Schaaf-Titel S, Annette Eschenbach A (2022): Soil water stress at young urban street-tree sites in response to meteorology and site parameters, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 75, 127692, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127692 

Schütt A, Becker JN, Reisdorff C, Eschenbach A (2022) Growth response of nine tree species on water supply in planting soils representative for urban street tree sites, Forests 13(6), 936, https://doi.org/10.3390/f13060936 

Albrechts J*, Peters M*, Becker JN, Behler C, Classen A, Ensslin A, Ferger SW, Gebert F, Gerschlauer F, Helbig-Bonitz M, Kindeketa WJ, Kühnel A, Mayr AV, Njovu HK, Pabst H, Pommer U, Röder J, Rutten G, Schellenberger Costa D, Sierra-Cornejo S, Vogeler A, Vollstädt MGR, Dulle HI, Eardley CD, Howell KM, Keller A, Peters RS, Kakengi V, Hemp C, Zhang J, Manning P, Mueller T, Bogner C, Böhning-Gaese K, Brandl R, Hertel D, Huwe B, Kiese R, Kleyer M, Leuschner C, Kuzyakov Y, Nauss T, Tschapka M, Fischer M, Hemp A, Steffan-Dewenter I*, Schleuning M* (2021): Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning in heterogeneous environments than species turnover, Nature Ecology and Evolution 5(12), 1582-1593, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01550-9 

2021

Heger A, Becker JN, Vazconez Navas LK, Eschenbach A (2021) Factors controlling soil organic carbon stocks in hardwood floodplain forests of the lower middle Elbe River, Geoderma 404, 115389, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115389 

Dai Z, Zang H, Chen J, Fu Y, Wang X, Liu H, Shen C, Wang J, Kuzyakov Y, Becker JN, Hemp A, Barberán A, Gunina A, Chen H, Luo Y, Xu J (2021): Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences. Environmental Microbiology 23, 4631-4645, https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15655 

Becker JN*, Holz M* (2021): Hot or not? Connecting rhizosphere hotspots to total soil respiration, Plant and Soil 464, 489–499, doi:10.1007/s11104-021-04963-4

Sierra Cornejo N, Leuschner C, Becker JN, Schellenberger-Costa D, Hertel D (2021): Climate implications on forest above- and belowground carbon allocation patterns along a tropical elevation gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Oecologia 195-3, 797-812, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04860-8 

Hennings N, Becker JN, Guillaume T, Damris M, Dippold MA, Kuzyakov Y (2021): Riparian wetland properties counter the effect of land use change on soil carbon stocks after rainforest conversion to plantations, CATENA 196, 104941, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2020.104941 

2020 und älter

Holz M, Becker JN, Oburger E, Daudin G (2020): Application of planar optodes to measure CO2 gradients in the rhizosphere of unsaturated soils, Rhizosphere 16, 100266, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2020.100266 

Holz M, Zarebanadkouki M, Carminati A, Becker JN, Spohn M (2020): The effect of root hairs on rhizosphere phosphatase activity, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 183-3, 382-388, https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201900426 

Ndossi EM, Becker JN, Dippold MA, Kuzyakov Y, Hemp A, Razavi BS (2020): Effects of land use and elevation on the functional characteristics of soil enzymes at Mt. Kilimanjaro. European Journal of Soil Biology, 97, 103167, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2020.103167 

Sierra-Cornejo N, Hertel D, Becker JN, Hemp A, Leuschner C (2020): Biomass, morphology and dynamics of the fine root system across a 3000 m-elevation gradient on Mt Kilimanjaro. Frontiers in Plant Science 11:13, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00013 

Becker JN, Dippold MA, Hemp A, Kuzyakov Y (2019) Ashes to Ashes: Characterization of Organic Matter in Andosols along a 3400 m Elevation Transect at Mount Kilimanjaro using Analytical Pyrolysis. CATENA 180, 271-281, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.04.033 

Peters MK, Hemp A, Appelhans T, Becker JN, Behler C, Classen A, Detsch F, Ensslin A, Helbig-Bonitz, Hemp C, Kindeketa WJ, Kühnel A, Mayr AV, Mwangomo E, Ngereza C, Njovu HK, Otte I, Pabst H, Renner M, Röder J, Rutten G, Schellenberger-Costa D, Sierra Cornejo N, Vollstädt MGR, Dulle HI, Eardley CD, Howell KM, Keller A, Peters RS, Ssymank A, Kakengi V, Zhang J, Bogner C, Böhning-Gaese K, Brandl R, Hertel D, Huwe B, Kiese R, Kleyer M, Kuzyakov Y, Nauss T, Schleuning M, Tschapka M, Fischer M & Steffan-Dewenter I (2019): Climate-land use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Nature 568, 88–92, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1048-z 

Becker JN & Kuzyakov Y (2018) Teatime on Mount Kilimanjaro: Assessing climate and land use effects on litter decomposition and stabilization using the Tea Bag Index. Land Degradation & Development 29/8, 2321-2329, https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2982 

Parvin S, Blagodatskaya E, Becker JN, Kuzyakov Y, Uddinc S, Dorodnikov M (2018) Microrelief and depth control microbial biomass and kinetics of C-, N-, P- and S-cycle enzymes in peatland, Geoderma 324, 67-76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.03.006 

Becker JN, Gütlein A, Sierra Cornejo N, Kiese R, Hertel D, Kuzyakov Y (2016): Legume and Non-legume Trees Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration in Savanna, Ecosystems, 5, 989-999, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-0087-7 

Gütlein A, Zistl-Schlingmann M, Becker JN, Sierra Cornejo N, Detsch F, Dannenmann M, Appelhans T, Hertel D, Kuzyakov Y, Kiese R (2016): Nitrogen turnover and greenhouse gas emissions in a tropical alpine ecosystem, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Plant and Soil, 411/1-2, 243-259, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-3029-4 

Becker J, Pabst H, Mnyonga J, and Kuzyakov Y (2015): Annual litterfall dynamics and nutrient Deposition depending on elevation and land use at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Biogeosciences 12, 5635-5646, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5635-2015